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Mount Dixon (Heard Island)

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219: 276: 184: 332: 74: 313: 260: 347: 99:. No activity has been observed on Mount Dixon, however some lava flows that are vegetation-free suggest an eruption within the last few hundred years. 133: 342: 306: 337: 253: 198: 124: 25: 193: 119: 352: 299: 203: 129: 246: 218: 188: 159: 164: 96: 226: 78: 154: 86: 70: 73:, an American sealer operating in the area during this period. It was surveyed in 1948 by the 62: 283: 230: 326: 57:, 705 metres (2,310 ft) high, standing 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km) west of 54: 69:. The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1860 sketch map by Captain 66: 58: 40: 27: 275: 282:
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which landed and relieved the 1948 and 1949 ANARE parties.
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53°0′S 73°17′E / 53.000°S 73.283°E / -53.000; 73.283
stratovolcano
Anzac Peak
Laurens Peninsula
Heard Island
H.C. Chester
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
George M. Dixon
RANVR
HMAS Labuan
Big Ben


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"Heard: Synonyms & Subfeatures"
Global Volcanism Program
Smithsonian Institution
public domain material
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